390 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
a 1,200 m altitude, September 18, 1924, by E. L. Ekman (no. H 
1944). 
Dry slopes and sterile pinelands, Hispaniola. 
Haiti: Port-au-Prince, Hkman H 7120. Ennery, Leonard 8832. 
Pétionville, Hkman H 1944, H 2329. 
Dominican Repusuic: San José de Ocoa, Ekman H 11885. Valle 
Nuevo, Ekman H 13853, H 13854, H 13862. 
9. Andropogon reedii Hitchc. and Ekman, sp. nov.’ 
Culms erect, cespitose, slender, glabrous, about 1 m tall; sheaths 
glabrous, keeled but not much compressed; ligule a membrane about 
0.5 mm long; blades rarely flat, usually folded or involute, erect, 
firm, as much as 30 cm long, 0.5 to 1.5 mm wide, scaberulous on the 
upper surface and sparsely pilose near the base, glabrous beneath, 
the midrib prominent beneath, the margins scabrous and also papillose- 
pilose toward the base; inflorescence about one-third the entire height 
of the culm, branched, the branches several or numerous, appressed; 
racemes solitary, 2 to 4 cm long, finally exserted from the spathes, 
the rachis slender, somewhat flexuous or nearly straight, the inter- 
nodes about 3 mm long, pilose with hairs 3 to 5 mm long; sessile 
spikelet 4 mm long, the first glume concave on the back but not 
channeled, hispidulous on the angles toward the tip; awn about 1 
cm long, geniculate, twisted below; pedicellate spikelet prominent, 
mostly 4 to 5 mm long, sometimes less, awnless, the pedicel 3 to 4 
mm long, pilose like the internode. 
Type in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1161264, 
collected in savannas at Minas, prov. Camagtiey, Cuba, October 5, 
1922, by E. L. Ekman. 
At Dr. Ekman’s suggestion the species is named for A. C. Reed, 
Beneye manager of the Cuba Railroad, who had extended courtesies 
to him. " 
Savannas and serpentine hills, Cuba, only known from the province 
of Camagiiey. 
Cusa: Minas, Ekman in 1922. Canasi, Ekman 17186; Léon 13121. 
10. Andropogon cubensis Hack., Flora 68: 121. 1885. Cuba, 
Wright 3898. 
Sorghum cubense Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 791. 1891. 
Schizachyrium cubense Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 109. 1912. 
Culms slender, erect from a loose rhizomatous base, 50 to 70 cm 
tall; blades involute, very slender, rather soft, the lowermost culm 
blade about 5 cm long, the upper successively shorter; peduncles 
long-exserted, 1 terminal and 1 or 2 from the upper sheaths; racemes 
erect or nodding, inconspicuously silky, 4 to 6 cm long, loosely 
flowered, the rachis slender, flexuous, pilose, the joints 3 to 10 mm 
long; sessile spikelet about 4 mm long, the awn 4 to 8 mm long; 
pedicellate spikelet much reduced, the pedicel slender, usually be- 
coming recurved-spreading. 
Sandy soil, Cuba. 
Cusa: Damuji (Pinar del Rio), Ekman 11049; Laguna del Perro, 
Ekman 18122. Without locality, Wright 3898. Isla de Pinos, Britton 
and Wilson 14291. 
2 Culmi erecti caespitosi graciles, circa 1 m alti; laminae plerumque complicatae vel involutae; racemi 
solitarii 2-4 em longi, rachide saepius leviter undulata longe pilosa; spiculae sessiles 4 mm longae, arista 
gracili 1 cm longa; spiculae pedicellatae 4-5 mm longae; pedicelli longe pilosi. 
